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10.1111/ilrf.12286

Les syndicats et les inégalités de revenus: témoignages d'un panel de pays européens

MONTEBELLO

Roberta

roberta.montebello.16@um.edu.mt SPITERI

Jonathan

jonathan.v.spiteri@um.edu.mt VON BROCKDORFF

Philip

philip.von-brockdorff@um.edu.mt

Faculté d'économie, de gestion et de comptabilité, Université de Malte

02 09 2023

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10.1111/ilrf.v162.3

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Cet article examine la relation entre les syndicats et la hausse des inégalités de revenus observée dans les économies avancées au cours des dernières décennies. Le rôle des syndicats dans la lutte contre l'inégalité croissante des revenus a été négligé dans les études empiriques, malgré son ambiguïté théorique. Le modèle empirique de référence, estimé pour 26 pays européens de 2005 à 2018, spécifie l'inégalité des revenus en fonction du taux de syndicalisation, de sa valeur au carré et d'un ensemble de variables de contrôle. Les institutions du marché du travail, autres que les syndicats, sont incorporées dans le modèle pour évaluer les effets distributifs de la densité syndicale dans l'ensemble du cadre institutionnel. Les auteurs constatent que la densité syndicale a une relation en forme de U inversé statistiquement significative et persistante avec l'inégalité des revenus.

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